Has anyone seen color negatives like this?
Aug 18, 2019 22:08:59 #
I haven't looked at the negatives for my wedding photos before. Hey, we had the album, right? But I have been scanning in old negatives and came to these. I'm using an Epson V600. It is extremely finicky, but I can usually make it work. But not on these negatives. When I took a second look, I realized that there are three odd things about the film. It has sprockets on only one edge, there are dark lines instead of transparent lines between frames, and although the film itself is 35mm, the pictures are smaller than usual 35mm pictures on negatives, almost square. They were taken by a professional photographer. Has anyone seen this kind of film before? This is from (ahem) 45 years ago.
Aug 18, 2019 22:13:59 #
Aug 18, 2019 22:17:05 #
Aug 18, 2019 22:19:46 #
Well! That's interesting. I don't remember anymore, but perhaps some friend's pictures got mixed in with the others. Thanks!
Aug 18, 2019 22:22:33 #
Aug 18, 2019 22:26:58 #
It looks like 126 film, mostly used in Kodak Instamatic but Contaflex, Kodak, Zeiss and others made SLRs for it including higher end ones with changeable lenses. The black is because the borders were pre-exposed.
Aug 18, 2019 22:28:31 #
bleirer wrote:
Did they put a camera at each table for the guests to take snaps?
Yes, thats right. Back in the day, brides used to put instamatic cameras at each table to be used by the guests to take pictures at the reception. I had forgotten about that tradition.
Aug 18, 2019 22:33:58 #
Aug 18, 2019 22:46:40 #
Hey! That is amazing. I never saw that kind of film. I was thinking that those negatives were from a medium format. But my fellow Hoggers, you are spot on!
Aug 18, 2019 23:18:28 #
tjw47
Loc: Michigan
Medium Format ??? 120 or 220 film had no sprocket holes and were almost 2 1/2" wide.. 126 film, was about 1.25" wide & had square images
Aug 18, 2019 23:47:00 #
126 film came as a cartridge. So no threading film or rewinding sometimes frames overlapped with a double exposure at the edges. Scans may reveal edge detail which was cut off on the lab print.
Aug 18, 2019 23:47:05 #
Aug 19, 2019 07:22:38 #
These are 126 instamatic negatives. This format was Kodak's early entrance into the point and shoot market and was quite popular in the late 60's and seventies. It was followed by 110 and then disk formats that further reduced the size of the camera to make it more of a pocket camera. Kodak was trying to do with film cameras what modern cellphones have done with digital.
Aug 19, 2019 08:01:19 #
pmsc70d wrote:
I haven't looked at the negatives for my wedding p... (show quote)
This film is from a 126 format cartridge. The single sprocket hole in each frame was designed to cock the shutter each time the film advance lever was used. The film is the same size as 135 film, but the 135 format has sprocket holes across the entire frame and therefore can not be used to load a 126 cartridge.
Aug 19, 2019 08:18:16 #
I am sure it is 126. I don’t doubt the expertise of so many of you. However, I wondered also if APS-C might have looked similar? I have no idea, having never looked at the actual film. I did have a cheap UW camera that used the stuff.
Good morning to some people I haven’t heard from in quite some time!
Good morning to some people I haven’t heard from in quite some time!
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